Tripp Lite, through Eric Cobb, has provided
test results from connecting their HID-compliant UPS hardware to NUT. Some of
this information has been incorporated into the NUT hardware compatibility
list, and the rest of the information is available via the
list
archives.

Appliances manufacturers

OpenGear has worked with NUT’s leader to
successfully develop and integrate PDU support. Opengear, through Scott Burns,
and Robert Waldie, has submitted several patches.

Potrans provided a Fenton PowerPal 600 (P series) for development of the
safenet driver.

Older entries (before 2005)

MGE UPS SYSTEMS was the previous NUT sponsor, from 2002 until its partial
acquisition by Eaton. They provided protocols information, many units for
development of NUT-related projects.
Several drivers such as mge-utalk, mge-shut, snmp-ups, hidups, and usbhid-ups
are the result of this collaboration, in addition to the WMNut, MGE HID Parser
the libhid projects, … through Arnaud Quette (who was also an MGE employee).
All the MGE supporters have gone with Eaton (through MGE Office Protection
Systems), which was temporarily the new NUT sponsor.

Fenton Technologies contributed a PowerPal 660 to the project. Their open
stance and quick responses to technical inquiries were appreciated for
making the development of the fentonups driver possible.
Fenton has since been acquired by Metapo.

Bo Kersey of VirCIO provided a Best Power Fortress
750 to facilitate the bestups driver.

Invensys Energy Systems provided the SOLA/Best "Phoenixtec" protocol
document. SOLA has since been acquired by Eaton.

PowerKinetics technical support provided documentation on their MiniCOL
protocol, which is archived in the NUT protocol library.
PowerKinetics was acquired by the JST Group in June 2003.

Cyber Power Systems contributed a
700AVR model for testing and development of the cyberpower driver.

Liebert Corporation supplied serial test boxes
and a UPStation GXT2 with the Web/SNMP card for development of the liebert
driver and expansion of the existing snmp-ups driver.
Liebert has since been acquired by Emerson.

If a company or individual isn’t listed here, then we probably don’t have
enough information about the situation. Developers are requested to report vendor
contributions to the NUT team so this list may reflect their help.
If we have left you out, send us some mail.